Search - Tim Hensley :: Long Monday

Journeyman musician Tim Hensley has served extended stints with Ricky
Skaggs, Patty Loveless and Kenny Chesney soaking up each individual artist s
essence on his way to making LONG MONDAY, a debut album that merges
vintage bluegrass with classic American songwriters and acoustic songs of
life. With guest appearances from Vince Gill, Sonya Isaacs and Loveless and
songs from John Prine, Rodney Crowell, Carl Jackson and Larry Cordle,
John Scott Sherrill, Tim Stafford and Ronnie Bowman, and Hensley himself,
this is a first record that sums up a lifetime of living inside the music.
Since learning to sing in a Pentecostal family, then becoming part of the
Altar Way Singers, the Cincinnati-born and raised tenor harmony singer has
slowly moved through a odyssey of bluegrass, country covers, Skaggs
bluegrass/country hybrid and Loveless Appalachian soul. His stint at the
auxiliary acoustic/electric rhythm guitarist and tenor singer with Kenny Chesney has
put him in front of over a million people every year for the last six summers and it s
Tim s love of bluegrass that inspired the multiple CMA and ACM Entertainer of the Year
to co-produce Hensley s record with creative cohort and ACM Song of the Year writer
Buddy Cannon.
Tim gets up there every night and rocks with us, Chesney says, but its after the
shows, walking back to the bus that you can hear his voice in the halls, singing what
he truly loves. You hear enough of someone singing something that really matters to
them, well, you wanna help them realize their music, too. That s how it felt with Tim and
the bluegrass stuff... It was letting the world get to hear something we ve been lucky
enough to get to hear almost every night for the last five or six years.

With an aggressive media campaign being lined up, a spring tour with Chesney and
endorsements from some of the brightest names in Americana, bluegrass and country,
Tim Hensley s debut is one of the most anticipated around the tastemaker rooms and in
the know music lovers collections in a long time. It is Hensley s willingness to be who
he is, to not follow trends but to work from the heart that drove LONG MONDAY and
it is that which the fans of the artists he s played with have always gravitated towards.
Blending the various genres he has passed through Southern gospel, bluegrass,
singer / songwriter, mountain soul and straight-up the middle country, LONG MONDAY
is a survey course in much of what s great about organic American music. A lot of
heart, hope, harmony and playing from a man who s given his music to so many and is
now finally getting to sing his own songs.